Forced to flee There was a time not too long ago when Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was optimistic about returning to his homeland. Now, 66 years after his […] ...

In the novel “Theft,” by the recent Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, three characters navigate messy relationships in 1980s ...

Sarah Chihaya examines our obsession with books — why they sustain us, how they perhaps cage us, if there can be too many — ...

The Incredible Story of a Braveheart is a poignant tribute to Naib Subedar Chuni Lal, a legendary figure in India’s military ...

Saou Ichikawa’s award-winning novel, “Hunchback,” is narrated by an heiress with a rare genetic disorder and a brilliant, ...

Either Al-Sharaa is sincere in his reform efforts but does not have control over hardliners in his own organization, or ...

The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

Genealogists volunteering for the Looted Books Project recently returned a volume to a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor in Florida who was given the book in 1930 as a gift for her good performance in ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said that the head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was ...

Natasha Rego interviews the British anthropologist who first proposed the idea that humans can maintain no more than 150 ...

The Soul of a Nation. That a nation has a soul was introduced by Plato in the Republic, in which he stated that the state is infused with a soul that resembles the soul of an indi ...

Rich Benjamin’s new book reveals a shared spirit between the world’s first Black republic and the United States. Haley Mlotek’s new book provides neither catharsis nor remedies for heartache ...